A Government source has revealed that Boris Johnson is putting off plans to tackle cost of living problems, in order to focus on allegations facing No.10 of holding parties during lockdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sir Kier Starmer, leader of the labour party, has also accused the government of being \u201cparalysed\u201d in the face of the fallout of Sue Gray\u2019s report into \u2018partygate\u2019, neglecting other government matters. Starmer believes the prime minster is unfit for office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other sources from the treasury have said that talks to ease the cost-of-living crisis have stalled because of the amount of time taken up by the lockdown party accusations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is believed that British families are set to face one of the worst costs of living crisis in 30 years, with inflation rising to 5.4% last month. Food and clothes are also becoming more expensive and unemployment benefits are set to hit one of their lowest values. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frances Ryan from The Guardian stated, \u201cJohnson clearly believes this himself to a large degree, seeing power as a game and the rest of us as pawns\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This follows accusations from members of the Liberal Democrats of being \u201cmissing in action\u201d responding to the Ukraine crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other issues that the government have failed to address includes the search for a new Ofcom Chair, the \u2018Levelling Up\u2019 scheme and the NHS backlog pay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many middle- and high-income families are due to be affected by the rising inflation which could cause families to go into significant debt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research from Creditspring shows that a quarter of households will have to borrow money to survive the next few months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is currently unclear whether a decision would be made in time for the announcement of the new level of energy price cap on the 7th<\/sup> of February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cornwall Insight, an analyst firm has predicted that the energy cap is due to rise by 51% by April 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Multiple legislative bills may not be able to pass through the House of Commons and Lords before the Parliamentary sessions wrap up, meaning <\/p>\n\n\n\n the Queen could announce them again in her next speech, in May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The PM\u2019s official spokesperson has so far rejected these claims, pointing to the success of the booster programme and the Government\u2019s new job campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Government source has revealed that Boris Johnson is putting off plans to tackle cost of living problems, in order to focus on allegations facing No.10 of holding parties during lockdown. Sir Kier Starmer, leader of the labour party, has also accused the government of being \u201cparalysed\u201d in the face of the fallout of Sue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-from-across-the-nation","category-politcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}